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Idaho Leaves Door Open to Action on Obamacare

Idaho is not ruling out the possibility of taking legal action if the Trump administration blocks its plan to allow the sale of healthcare coverage that does not abide by Obamacare’s mandates. Dean Cameron, the state’s insurance commissioner, hopes that any issues the administration has with Idaho’s plan can instead be hashed out during ongoing […]

February 28, 2018

College Uses Simulations to Teach Healthcare Students

WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa — Hospitals are constantly in need of nurses and other health care professionals, and those professionals must be prepared to care for patients with everything from pre-eclampsia to traumatic injuries. That’s why Southeastern Community College designed, built and equipped its Great River Health Systems Health Professions Building — named in recognition of […]

February 28, 2018

Healthcare Simulations

Meeting Nursing Demands Through Diversity

For the past decade, the nursing profession has made diversity a priority. While the numbers in the profession — less than 25 percent minority nurses — do not yet mirror the general population of the United States — 38 percent non-White people — solid efforts and strategies are at work to facilitate change. In the […]

February 28, 2018

Nursing Diversity

Trump Blames McCain for ACA Loss

President Donald Trump called out Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for not supporting Republican legislation to repeal the ACA this past summer during a Friday address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, where he also lauded the GOP’s new healthcare strategy, according to The Hill. Mr. McCain cast the decisive vote against a “skinny” repeal of the ACA in […]

February 28, 2018

Geneticist Unravels Race and Health Risks

You’ve probably seen the statistics: African-Americans experience significantly higher risks for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, stroke, and certain cancers compared to white and Hispanic Americans. But while the health disparities between different racial and ethnic groups are undeniably real, experts say, the way we traditionally think about race and disease risk is flawed. Read […]

February 28, 2018

Genetic Health Risks

Congress Opens Door to Paid Family Leave

The goal to pass a national paid family leave law has turned a corner in the halls of Congress, with conservatives showing more openness to taking action after President Trump declared support for the benefit. Advocates who have long pushed for paid family leave say that the level of interest by lawmakers has been unprecedented, […]

February 28, 2018

Paid Family Leave

Study: SNAP Doesn’t Even Cover a Cheap Meal

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Most Americans receiving food assistance benefits can’t afford the cost of an average low-income meal, a new national study reported on the heels of the federal government’s proposal to limit the program. The study from the Urban Institute reported that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fell short of affording an average […]

February 28, 2018

SNAP Food Assistance

Restricting Choice

It’s time—literally—for an out-of-the-box approach to the Trump administration’s plan to help feed our most vulnerable neighbors. In last week’s presidential budget, the administration proposed replacing most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits with a pre-selected box of mostly dry goods like peanut butter, pasta and cereal. They wanted to stop benefit recipients from choosing […]

February 26, 2018

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Doctor: Focus on Prevention to Address Disparities

Medicine has progressed by leaps and bounds over the past 75 years. Life spans have been extended, advanced cancer treatments and screenings have had a positive effect on cure rates, and drugs and antibiotics have virtually eradicated many diseases that were once deadly. Read More

February 26, 2018

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Indian Health Services Nominee Withdraws

Trump administration’s nominee Robert Weaver withdrew his name Wednesday from consideration to lead the Indian Health Service, which comes after a report that he misrepresented his work experience. “Mr. Weaver is no longer the Administration’s nominee for Director of the Indian Health Service,” a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The […]

February 26, 2018

Pushing for Diversity in Nursing

Studying public health as a college student, Dr. Lisa Whitfield-Harris was hesitant to expand her career to higher education, a field that required her to do more public speaking than she was used to. “I knew I wanted to be in nursing,” she says. “I didn’t figure it out until later on in my career […]

February 26, 2018

N.C. Poor Children Suffer Health Disparities

In annual report card on the health of children in North Carolina released last week drew a stark connection to economic insecurity and poor health, giving the state low grades on health issues affecting its poorest residents. The 2018 Child Health Report Card was released Monday by the N.C. Institute of Medicine and NC Child, […]

February 26, 2018

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Helix Bridges Disconnect Between Health Care and Diversity

If it wasn’t for a personal experience with his healthcare provider, Nolan Pokpongkiat might’ve been studying software engineering and his organization, The Helix Group, wouldn’t have been born. Now a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, he founded Helix to address the lack of diversity within the healthcare field and encourage underrepresented students to […]

February 26, 2018

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Racism Still A Problem In Healthcare’s C-Suite

Black professionals who hope to reach administrative positions in hospital systems know to keep their mouths shut when it comes to issues of diversity, inclusion and race. Speak out, and they risk being branded angry or difficult, labels that stick once assigned. Better to have a silent seat at the table, than no seat at […]

February 26, 2018

Even for Bezos, Fixing Health Care Is Hard

Every year, health care consumes a larger share of the U.S. economy. Decades of grand efforts to control costs mostly haven’t worked: Health care now accounts for about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Warren Buffett has compared the system to a hungry tapeworm eating away at its corporate and taxpayer hosts. Now he’s trying […]

February 26, 2018

Bad TV, Bad Medicine

Along with a dwindling number of my medical colleagues, I’ve been watching Fox’s new TV show “The Resident,” which documents the experiences of an intern fresh out of medical school (the charming Manish Dayal), along with his chief resident (a brash but dedicated Matt Czurchy), and an assortment of other residents, nurses (including the wonderful […]

February 22, 2018

Texas Women Fight to Lower Maternal Mortality

SAN ANTONIO – There is a long list of causes that lead to maternal mortality, women dying within a year of giving birth. Those deaths are reported to be higher in Texas than anywhere else in the U.S and many other developed countries. Some women are at higher risk than others. Read More

February 22, 2018

Google Wants to Use Artificial Intelligence to Predict Heart Disease

I can look into your eyes and see straight to your heart. It may sound like a sappy sentiment from a Hallmark card. Essentially though, that’s what researchers at Google did in applying artificial intelligence to predict something deadly serious: the likelihood that a patient will suffer a heart attack or stroke. The researchers made […]

February 22, 2018